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Cardiovascular health and collagen supplementation will be featured in my next post, here is a teaser from a systematic review and meta analysis on this topic. The short and sweet takeaway is that 13-15 grams of collagen per day, ie two tablespoons of a collage supplement, has been showed to reduce LDL cholesterol, decrease fat mass, increase lean muscle mass, lower triglycerides and more! I suspect this is because of the effect of the glycine in the collagen on methylation and on the NMDA receptor in the brain which along with doing many other things controls appetite and satiation.
“Zhu et al. indicated that daily supplementation of 13 g of CPS for 12 weeks led to a significant reduction in LDL, HDL, TAG, total cholesterol, systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), fasting blood sugar and HbA1c in patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus and primary hypertension.”